2009, ISBN: 9781104450045

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New York - G P Putman's Sons, 1910 Book. Good. Hardcover. An uncommon 1910 edition ofSterne'sthird and final novel,lavishly illustrated with full-colour plates by Everard Hopkins.… Altro …

New York - G P Putman's Sons, 1910 Book. Good. Hardcover. An uncommon 1910 edition ofSterne'sthird and final novel,lavishly illustrated with full-colour plates by Everard Hopkins. Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 18 March 1768) was a novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italywas written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765,he travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The frontispiece is missing,but the eleven remaining tissue-guarded colour plates are present, tipped-in on attractive grey paper. With intriguing copperplate ink inscription to front free endpaper, Louis Sterne, in remembrance of a very pleasant friendship. Xmas, Sidmouth, 1916. Condition: In a hardback cloth binding with gilt titling and illustration to front board. Externally, generally sound with marks and slight wear to boards. Some bumping to head and tail of spine. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Internally, binding loosening slightly in places. Generally bright with foxing to endpapers. Overall: GOOD., New York - G P Putman's Sons, 1910, E. Lloyd and Son, London, first edition, 1829. Sturdily rebound in green library buckram, top edge gilt, gilt spine titles, 8vo, 22 cm,. 387, [1] pp. With an introductory memoir of Lord Chesterfield (pp 1-72). The remainder of the text prints letters dated between 1656 (when Stanhope succeeded to hies Earldom) and 1712 taken from a manuscript volume of Lord Chesterfield found in the library at Bath House, about 1810. Sir Philip Stanhope's first marriage was to Lady Anne Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland. Following her death, a marriage had been arranged between him and Mary, daughter of the 3rd Lord Fairfax, but she jilted him and Chesterfield subsequently married Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde and his wife, Elizabeth. Following his second wife's death in 1665, Chesterfield married again to Lady Elizabeth Dormer, with whom he had two sons. An ex-library copy bound in green library buckram. Library label on front pastedown endpaper with withdrawn stamp, library stamps also on the front free endpaper, title-page and occasional margins. Covers slightly sunned, portrait frontispiece foxed, offsetting from portrait to title-page, title=page and next page separated from bindigng along top two-thirds of hinge, some light agetoning throughout, otherwise Good., E. Lloyd and Son, London, first edition, 1829, 1829, Lund: Svio-Estonica, 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Swedish. 172-180 pp. Sven Bælters Rysslandsresa. [Separatum Svio-Estonica Volym XIV]. Sven Bælter's Russian trip. Sven Bælter, (1713-1760) was a Swedish theological writer and chief predictor. Signed and inscribed by Arne to Akdes Nimet Kurat, (1903-1971)., Svio-Estonica, 1958, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27. Hardcover. Used:Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27<

2009, ISBN: 9781104450045

Covent Garden, London: Vizetelly & Co., 1889 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large Octavo. Volume I. (vi) xxvi (ii), 216 pp. Volume II. x (ii), 316 pp. Edited by Henry Vizetelly. Re-issu… Altro …

Covent Garden, London: Vizetelly & Co., 1889 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large Octavo. Volume I. (vi) xxvi (ii), 216 pp. Volume II. x (ii), 316 pp. Edited by Henry Vizetelly. Re-issue of Choice Illustrated books of the Eighteenth Century series with 5 additional illustrated plates, 1889. Linen spine browned with minor edge wear to boards. Rough-cut pages with lightly bumped bottom front fore-edge corner tips (slightly frayed tip Vol. II), lightly age-toned edges and gutters of endpapers along with bottom and fore- text block edges. One leaf of Vol. II p. 135 torn across and partially mended with no loss. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 7" x 9.75". Green cloth with green linen backstrip and gilt vertical line separating the two, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block edges. The translation carefully revised by the original edition of 1713; and accompanied by numerous illustrative and explanatory notes. Illustrated with 17 etchings and 34 portraits of court beauties and other personages occupying a prominent place in the memoirs. Vol. I: preface, list of tissue-protected plate, Anthony Hamilton the Gramonts; Epistle to the Count de Gramont; Introduction; 7 Chapters; appendix. Vol. II: list of tissue-protected plates, Chapters 8-14; Ecologues I & II; appendix, index.., Vizetelly & Co., 1889, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27. Hardcover. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27<

2009, ISBN: 9781104450045

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27. Hardcover. Used:Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27, 0